@drmaltman

Micah Altman is a social and information scientist at the Center for Research in Equitable and Open Science, MIT.

 Cambridge, MA
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In The Conversation @theconversation .com, Philip Cohen @familyundequal and I provide a guide to understanding expert consensus -- and how to incorporate expertise in regulation without limiting scholars' rights to speak freely. dlvr.it/TQVwzw

‘Expertise’ shouldn’t be a bad word – expert consensus guides science and society

Expertise comes with training, experience and accreditation. And expert consensus is the best guide modern democracies have for making decisions about complicated challenges.

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New evidence (from work lead by Hannah Hok, with @mchris4duke and Sakaria Auelua-Toomey) that core individual beliefs about what makes science science - and what science is for - affects scientists' openness dlvr.​it/TVqpFx
QR code linking to https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-11134352/v1

ALT QR code linking to https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-11134352/v1

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Looking forward to discussing digital preservation (long-term access) & trust with Kate Murray, Trevor Owens, and Kate Wittenberg next week: dlvr.it/TTv5ns
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A large group of scholars calls for the adoption of proportional representation to end the redistricting wars dlvr.it/TTqVBX (some media discussion here: dlvr.it/TTqVBY )
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Roundups of critiques by scholars ( dlvr.it/TTqQPq ) and libraries ( dlvr.it/TTqQPs ) of OMB's proposed overhaul of federal grantmaking. This is a continuation of the attack on scientific institutions launched in early 2025 ( dlvr.it/TTqQQ0 )

Scholars Warn Proposed Rule Threatens Research Independence | Scholars Strategy Network

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In contrast to politics in the US, it is possible to take a principle approach to redistricting that promotes electoral integrity. We summarize theory and practice in a new Oxford handbook: dlvr.it/TSBqmk
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In contrast to the US is now , it is possible to take a principled approach to redistricting. We review the state of theory and practice as part of a new Oxford handbook: dlvr.it/TSBkT2
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In a forthcoming article, @electproject and I review the state of election data availability, and discuss how gaps in records management create the opportunity for soft voter suppression and pretextual challenges to election results. Preprint available dlvr.it/TSBbCH
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(Reposting ) It’s magical thinking for politicians to expect to receive truthful answers about the world when they ... ignore data they dislike." dlvr.it/TNDKGY

Views from the front lines of Trump’s war on the science community

The government’s war against science is a disaster for both.

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Privacy researchers and practitioners may be interested in this proposal for a differential privacy deployment registry: dlvr.it/TN7lrc (comments requested by 11/14)

NIST Internal or Interagency Report (NISTIR) 8588 (Draft), A Community‐Driven Differential Privacy...

There is a need in the community of privacy practitioners for a trustworthy, collaborative shared database of differentially private deployments, to help foster norms about best practices. We propose...

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Speaking with Michael Mcdonald @electproject.bsky.social about research on integrity in election administration at ADRCon 2025 in June. For more on how administrative data offers crucial insights into our democracy and communities, check out: dlvr.it/TKgCD3

Administrative Data Research Conference 2025 - Massive Data Institute

Join us in Washington, D.C. for the inaugural Administrative Data Research Conference (ADRCon) where together we will unlock the power of administrative data to serve the public good.

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Released this week - useful guide for college students on using Generative AI by by @ITDFuture dlvr.it/TKg2rc Published by @elonuniversity & @aacu ( full disclosure, I served as a reviewer for this latest version )

Get the 2025 Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence - Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence

Download your FREE copy of the 2025 Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence This guide is made available under a Creative Commons license by Elon University and the American Association of Colleges...

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Expert crystal ball gazing is speculative but provocative. The majority of my colleagues in this survey predict substantial diminishment of human capacity in the near future. My take is that this generation of technologies is accelerating the development of artificial relationships (for better and worse) -- but not a major shift in the meaning of 'being human' or in individual human capacity.
Imagining the Digital Future@ITDFuture2 Apr 2025
Our new report releases today: Being Human in 2035. Global tech experts discuss how the adoption of AI is changing the ways humans think, feel, act and relate to one another. imaginingthedigitalfuture.or…
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For data privacy week, some advice on protecting your information as a consumer: dlvr.it/THjNdn (And thanks to @TheOfficialACM for facilitating the conversation...)

Data Privacy Week: How to Take Control of Your Digital Life

Data Privacy Week highlights the importance of reclaiming your digital privacy by understanding data collection practices

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This presentationt dlvr.it/THXqJz , for the recent MIT workshop on Research Ecosystem and Peer-review Practice traces the history of peer review and what we know about it .. it complements our observations on making peer review more scientific: dlvr.it/THXqK1

scholarly peer review

Scholarly Peer Review: How is it used? How well does it work? Micah Altman Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship MIT Libraries This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribu...

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Read it here: econstor.eu/handle/10419/308… (Gratified to have been a cog in this machine.)
I4R@I4Replication22 Jan 2025
New research alert! Our study investigates the effectiveness of human-only, AI-assisted, and AI-led teams in assessing the reproducibility of quantitative social science research. We've got some surprising findings!
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Check out Claudia R. Schneider @CRSchneider's and colleagues's review on communicating scientific evidence! It offers practical advice and emphasizes the importance of transparency in science and science communication. Read more here: dlvr.it/THB5sj

Communication of Statistics and Evidence in Times of Crisis

This review provides an overview of concepts relating to the communication of statistical and empirical evidence in times of crisis, with a special focus on COVID-19. In it, we consider topics...

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Need DAGs? This recent article by Charlotte Fowler and Amy Pitts is a useful guide to tools for producing directed acyclic graphs for causal inference. dlvr.it/TH9hqD (Spoiler alert, DAGitty rocks..., and ggdag Tidy's it up )
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Fascinating review of thirty years of theory of information cascades (by Bikhchandani, Hirshleifer, Tamuz and @ivowelch Tamuz) : dlvr.it/TGJsmz . The complexity that arises from these models is beautiful, and the intuitions are illuminating.

Information Cascades and Social Learning

(September 2024) - Social learning is the updating of beliefs based on observation of others. Such observation can lead to efficient aggregation of information, but also to inaccurate decisions,...

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Studying open science, open access, or equitable science? Our preprint guides design, measurement, and reporting: "Guidance for Reporting on Studies of Open and Equitable Scholarship" dlvr.it/TFj1RN
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